Okay, so you’re dead. Sorry, but you knew it had to happen
eventually. For some, it happens young, but most of us when we are older and
worn. Rather than a bright light, you end up in a low budget college with a
dorm and a staff. Their purpose is singular: to help you choose the one memory
that you will spend eternity with. It’s a tough choice because eternity is a
long time and out of all the beats in your life you only get to choose one.
Think about it for a second. Your whole life, one memory is
all you will get. Your whole life will be boiled down to this one moment.
Nothing else will count. Will you chose a happy memory? A poignant one that
perhaps represents your whole life? A lesson you learned? A person you spent
your life with… or a person you wanted to spend your life with. It’s a tough
decision. But don’t worry, you’ve got a few days to figure it out.
I love the conceptual seed of the film, but also the rough,
almost gritty feel of it, just the opposite of most presentations of the
afterlife. There’s no mystic light, no robes, no courtroom feel. Just a group
of social workers, there to bring you to your inevitable conclusions, who, of
course, have their own issues. The interviews are also quite realistic,
documentary-like, and rightly so, as some of the people are not actors, but
just people who they are asking this singular question to.
So you might ask, what is my choice? After spending two plus
hours thinking on the question and asking my family about it, I think that a
scene that is interpreted various ways would be best for me. If I’m going to
spend eternity watching a short about my life, I’d like it to be provocative,
with different answers. Because I will be many people, thinking different
things throughout eternity and I’d rather have a scene that could be
interpreted various ways. Or I could just have a recording of Jesus Christ
Superstar. Or maybe a poem by John Donne. Something like that.
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